In His infinite love for mankind, the All-Merciful Lord endured for us and instead of us all the torments and sorrows that devastated human nature as a result of its fall into sin and death. Enduring this for all people and instead of all people, He wept and grieved for the sins of the whole world, praying until he sweated blood. He did all this not for His own sake, but for the sake of the human race, the sins, sufferings and death of which He voluntarily took upon Himself. All the suffering, all death and punishment brought on by sin on the human race, with all their terrible consequences that irresistibly struck human nature in the form of countless torments, illnesses and sorrows, the merciful God-Man took upon Himself. The immeasurable human sinfulness and all its terrible companions: illnesses, calamities, sorrows, diverse types of death, temporary and eternal torments, tore at the merciful heart of Jesus and, like a bitter cup, appeared before His eyes, pointing to the terrible responsibility of the human race before God. In Him, the true God-Man, human nature wept and sobbed, looking at all that it had done by its overthrow into sin and death. Instead of all of us and for all of us, it was horrified by all its sins and falls. My Father! if possible, let this cup pass from me (Matt. 26:39).
St. Justin Popovich (+1979), Dogmatic Theology
Twentieth Century